regional division. the Plan is to divide Sweden in the major regions is dead and buried. At least for a long time ahead.
Among the county councils and länsregioner who hoped for deeper cooperation with its neighbours is the disappointment was great.
Reactions on that Sweden will be divided into six major regions go in both major and minor. In the northern parts of the country, where it already today, there is a great cooperation between the county councils, greeted the news with disappointment.
– It is boring. It was a reform for Sweden, not primarily for the Nation, ” says Erik Lövgren (S), landstingsråd in Västernorrland, sweden.
Niklas Nordström (S), mayor of Luleå, and a member of the steering group that prepared a northern storregion, confirms that the disappointment is great.
– Strange as it is, in principle, there is a majority in the parliament for the formation of the major regions. And so, in a real situation, take the strength just end, ” sighs he.
According to the Nordstrom will northern Sweden are usually short when it comes to the distribution of the national infrastructure and other common bets on the development. Therefore, increasing requirements for enhanced cooperation and coordination between the northern counties.
– But unfortunately, we are now not the national support we so desperately needed. We must do it ourselves, ” he says.
Concern in Värmland
Värmland regionstyrelseordförande Tomas Riste (S) is worried after the announcement.
– It will be tough for us in the long term. The demographic challenge is huge for us.
He’s referring to an ageing population in Värmland that have a greater need of health care should be financed by a shrinking crowd of active taxpayers.
Tomas Riste believes that Sweden today has a regional organization that is not up to scratch – a mixture of jätteregioner as Västra Götaland, Skåne and Stockholm and miniregioner in, for example, Halland and Gotland.
– It does not work. With the mission that you put on regions in the future, to manage health care and infrastructure, it requires a certain mass in order to be able to handle it in a good way.
No grief in Kronoberg
But in the Region of Kronoberg feel the political leadership no grief over that this proposal is in mothballs. Cooperation is better than mergers, consider the region chairman Anna Fransson (S).
– We want to continue to cooperate in all the four directions, therefore, we did not see the benefits of that form the major regions, ” she says.
If and when the plans can once again be on the agenda is unclear.
– Because this was the fifth time, and there have been 20 studies since the 60′s so there is probably no one who has the answer. It is, well, just gneta”, says Lövgren.
The political leadership in the Valleys looked forward to a storregion extensive the whole of Svealand. But landstingsrådet Gunnar Barke (S) do not want to talk about disappointment.
New Dalaregion
– No, the feeling runs off quickly. Now we go on with our plan B that apply to a federated Dalaregion, ” he says.
In the Valleys, the county council operated health and health care, while a joint municipal, called the Dalarna Region, was responsible for, among other things, public transport, development, growth programs, and tourism issues. Now to the politicians to collect all these and more tasks in a new länsregion with the same name as the old one.
– So it is in many other places. One of the advantages is that it all ends up in an elected regionparlament. Then we hope to be able to develop the collaborations that we already started with the other counties that would have been included in the Region Svealand, ” says Barke.
the FACTS
regional breakdown
Sweden is divided into 21 counties and 21 county councils/regions. In the longer term, the idea has been, from the so-called Indelningskommittén, they shall be replaced by the six storlän and the corresponding county councils.
Three new counties/major regions, it was proposed to be in place by 1 January 2019.
Northern counties would be formed of Norrbotten, Västerbotten, Västernorrland and Jämtland.
Svealands county would be in the form of Södermanland, Västmanland, Dalarna, Gävleborg, Uppsala and Örebro in sweden.
Götaland county would consist of the region Västra Götaland and Värmland county.
Sources: TT, Indelningskommittén, government offices.
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